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Frugal Ideas

Cheaper Easter
Buy your easter eggs the day after easter at up to 75% off. Chocolate never goes off. Put them in a container lined top and bottom with a tea towel, and place in the chest freezer. Take out night before easter for perfect easter eggs, they don't go white or flaky, they are the same as if just bought.

DIY drain cleaner
Fill sink with very hot water, add 1 cup salt, 1 cup white vinegar and half cup washing soda. Once washing soda has dissolved, pull the plug and let it flush out the drains. Doing this on a regular basis helps prevent odours and build ups that can cause blockages. The salt will help to keep small roots from taking up residence in your pipes.

Clean out lint filter in the dryer, and the one at the back as well.

Mums Breakfast Special English Muffins
Eggs and melted cheese and ham or bacon fried on a muffin.

Pancake syrup
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups hot water
1 tsp vanilla extract
Place sugar and water in a medium saucepan. Bring to boil over medium heat stirring until sugar is dissolved. Boil for 5 minutes. Take off heat and carefully pour in vanilla extract, it may splatter when pouring in. Let cool and store in a glass bottle.

Visitors

Busy Mum of 3. Nemma to 1 with another on the way. I keep heritage chooks and guinea fowl, and a couple of resident dogs. We live close to the big smoke on a couple of acres, and have 152 acres about 4 hours north, where we run some small scale cattle and a beautiful big bull. He keeps us in supply with some gorgeous little baby calves for our girls.